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cakesmith handyman posted:Yeah sometimes it's that simple, ordered a brother-DCP-L3510CDW. Let's see how long the 1000 page starter toners last. We got a legit 1000+ pages out of the starter toners on our brother colour laser multifunction. My missus is a teacher so it gets thrashed- we’ve easily fed it 4-5 boxes of paper reams so far and never had any issue with the machine. Had one black genuine toner cartridge that reported being empty after 200 pages but Officeworks replaced that one no questions asked. We’ve started to use the Keytek aftermarket toners in it because they’re $60-100 cheaper per cartridge than the genuine ones and they’ve been flawless. On music chat, the black keys newest album is pretty drat good. It’s got some great tracks on it to crank up in the car and drive too. In other news, I might be trying to work out who I need to beg too bout getting my old job back.... the new job isn’t anything like what the job and persons specs said it would be and every time I try to implement a suggestion to improve things I get shouted down because of a mountain of “what If” scenarios... it’s crap, I hate it, I loathe going to work and I feel like I’m living to work, which is poo poo.
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Well the compressor works, but the outside unit fan (and possibly contactor and capacitor) is dead. Makes cold air until it overheats.
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freelop posted:Sabaton to Anthrax to Eluveitie Urrg I'm on the wrong part of the planet! Sabaton has to come back to Oz! Hot-take, things and stuff were done with certian member of Eluveitie in their early days. And It wasn't beard pulling.
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IOwnCalculus posted:Woke up before the asscrack of dawn to go on a Jeep run. Took a bit of getting ready before I realized that it was remarkably warm in the house. Four degrees above the thermostat set point. Did you check the contactor and when was the last time you replaced the capacitor? Those are two of the main and frequent things that fail, to the point that I have extras on my shelf in case. The contactor is abotu $30 and the capacitor about the same from Amazon, but a service place will charge you upwards of $200 for the parts, plus labor. They are both easy to replace. IOwnCalculus posted:Well the compressor works, but the outside unit fan (and possibly contactor and capacitor) is dead. Makes cold air until it overheats. Outside fan is another easy DIY replacement, I've got one of those on the shelf, too. They make almost-universal motors that you can wire up to be a bolt-in replacement. I bet it's your capacitor, though. In my Hello, August, I still have 8 industrial fans and 2 industrial dehumidifiers running in my house. Sound level in the kitchen is over 85db. It's maddening, and the area behind/under the dishwasher is still wet. I'm looking at cabinet replacement, possible subfloor replacement, an entire re-build of the finished basement, it's absolutely unreal how much damage was done in such a short period of time. Plus, I know it'll be covered by insurance, but I don't have full insurance blessing and that just makes me uncomfortable, knowing it's going to be $20k+ to repair.
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:So as well as getting married, I seem to have accquired a step-daughter. That's a very weird situation for her. Follow her mom's lead on parenting.
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NumbersMatching320 posted:There are people still writing goddamned swing music in 2019, a genre doesn't die as long as someone is doing something with it. They'll rise and fall but I see it more like waves hitting a beach. And yeah, calling rock dead is being a dick- there's a whole world of incredible performers and new ideas and ardent fans in the rock scene out there and to call it dead because it's not currently as commercially successful as um, Ed Sheeran (had to look up the t40s lol) is to crassly dismiss all of those people and their collective passion. Lol I realize the scene is still there but as far as rock being mainstream or popular music it's over. This isn't a knock on it because like I said I love it (look at my avatar it's loving Keith Moon), but denying it and calling people dicks for pointing it out doesn't make it less true. Saying "rock is dead" is just a term stating the popularity of it is nowhere near what it used to be, it doesn't mean it's buried six feet under, some of ya'll are taking it way too personally geez. Now excuse me while I listen to some Black Sabbath  And here's some of the Keith Moon we all know and love https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9boFzhUVG4 Applebees Appetizer fucked around with this message at 15:29 on Aug 17, 2019 |
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Applebees Appetizer posted:But it is? Rock used to be mainstream and it's not anymore, hasn't been in a long time. It's got nothing to do with how I feel about the genre, because I love rock music. Yes I'm old because I remember when rock dominated popular music so that makes me a dick I guess lol. not being mainstream is not the same as being dead! The mainstream is generally pretty poo poo. Are decent cars dead too because the mainstream drive a boring appliance? Humphreys posted:I am still recovering from a Polaris concert and yup, I'm starting to feel the effects of circlepits now. I saw Polaris last month  It was also in a hot room during a heatwave and did you know that circle pits are actually lovely and cooling for those standing round them in a hot room! freelop posted:#1 in the UK too. This probably wont help you lot in different timezones (presenters are on from 7am-7pm UK time) - but here is a UK based online rock and metal radio station. Between this and by using the suggested artists on spotify I have no problem keeping myself in new/decent rock music at all times
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Tomarse posted:not being mainstream is not the same as being dead! The mainstream is generally pretty poo poo. Are decent cars dead too because the mainstream drive a boring appliance? It's just a term that means rock is no longer a part of the mainstream dude, in that case it's true. And yes the mainstream is poo poo. Just imagine if all the cool cars dominated the market and boring appliances were in the minority.....That's how it was with rock in the late 60's going all the way into the 90's. Being born in '71 I got to grow up with all the cool music and see the rock genre grow into the monster it was in the 90's. I went to so many shows I couldn't begin to count, it was a great time to be a music fan. It's just kind of sad now how computers and autotune programs are making all the popular music now days, it's all poo poo.
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Humphreys posted:sadly it was pretty poo poo but hey, new stuff from a band I like!
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Applebees Appetizer posted:It's just a term that means rock is no longer a part of the mainstream dude, in that case it's true. And yes the mainstream is poo poo. Yeah but like, who cares about how popular it gets? There is more incredible rock music being made today by more talented people than ever before. Making music is easier than ever and that owns. Sorta like how I bet there are more actual practicing blacksmiths today than have ever before.
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I am 42 and I regularly go to shows seeing bands in their 20s. Good poo poo is good poo poo. Luckily or unlucky I get time to pursue these things. But I also go see old men like me (Noel Gallagher) every chance I get. Spotify is the only thing in my life I am happy to pay for.
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I don't mind having to hunt for good music, makes you feel cool when you find it. The market for music is massive, a band can put out a couple fantastic albums and never make the radio, but that's what spotify and other music servers are for. I find most bands I listen to through random youtube views, "related views", "customers who bought this also bought..." on amazon, and recommendations of friends. I'm enjoying the synthwave resurgence due to someone posting gunship in this here forum last year. And I really enjoy hearing someone great in the background of a TV show or movie and finding out that all of their songs are great. CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:So as well as getting married, I seem to have accquired a step-daughter. Once you get over the terror of them not having any reflexes or judgment and teach it to them, it's pretty fun. My daughter has passed the year and is over 60 hours now, and is ready for her test. When we drive at this point I just nitpick about cutting too close to the edge of a lane and letting off the gas when she changes lanes. She was really nervous at first but her confidence skyrocketed after about the 30 hour mark. I think the hardest part is learning to really communicate, yelling WHOA WHOA WHOA doesn't alert them to what you are reacting to in any useful way, but that's how I reflexively do it, took a lot of work to be truly communicative in a panic situation.  Also there are guides for parents that remind you what is most important to teach first, and when to step up to more advanced and dangerous things. Like they don't recommend highways until 20 hours or more. Outside of driving my general recommendation would be to just be her friend, don't treat her like anything more. Especially if she has a dad active in her life. LloydDobler fucked around with this message at 17:52 on Aug 17, 2019 |
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KakerMix posted:Yeah but like, who cares about how popular it gets? I don't care, I was just stating a fact that's all 
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Coredump posted:I really like what I hear about the driving feel of the BRZ but they’re holding their value. And it’s hard to make the math when I can get the amount of car that a C6 brings for the same price of a used BRZ. If you can live with the slightly less upscale interior, just get an FR-S; you won't be paying the 25 percent Subaru tax.
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I had a deposit on an frs when they were first coming out but I ended up buying a golf TDI after the letdown of the engine the frs has. I don't know if they've addressed it, but that torque dip was super noticeable. I ended up buying an s2k a few years later. That engine in the frs and I would have bought one.
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The motor in the frs hasn't changed. At most, the second generation got 5 more hp. There are aftermarket super chargers that supposedly fix the issue.
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mariooncrack posted:The motor in the frs hasn't changed. At most, the second generation got 5 more hp. Apparently headers and a tune work pretty well too. But a supercharged BRZ does sound like some fun.
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SC'ed FRS/BRZ sounds awesome, but wasn't it Muffinpox that bought one and eventually got rid of the SC if not the car itself?
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Headers and a tune or a tune alone flattens the torque curve out. I keep looking at autotrader for another FRS/BRZ but I know in my heart that I don't want to deal with the bullshit of another loan and my current car mostly works so it'll have to be next spring/early summer.
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:So as well as getting married, I seem to have accquired a step-daughter.
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How is the FRS/BRZ as a daily tho? I thought about one but it doesn't seem like the best choice for a DD.
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Tossed some old tires on the Locost and did a drift clinic today...I suck! Was a blast other than it being 95 with heat index at 105 or something stupid. They're still going but I'm a wimp and can't take the heat. Good way to kill some 11 year old tires I had laying around in a safe manner.
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meatpimp posted:Did you check the contactor and when was the last time you replaced the capacitor? Those are two of the main and frequent things that fail, to the point that I have extras on my shelf in case. The contactor is abotu $30 and the capacitor about the same from Amazon, but a service place will charge you upwards of $200 for the parts, plus labor. They are both easy to replace.  I have literally never replaced anything on the system other than the thermostat, until today. From the differing layers of dust I think someone (at least 12 years ago!) may have replaced the contactor but the capacitor had what sure looked like a 1999 date code on it. I shotgunned all of them at it because it's way cheaper than paying someone, I didn't have the time to make multiple trips if I was wrong, and none of the parts in question looked particularly good. The contacts on the contactor were visibly quite worn, the capacitor was old as poo poo (and tested low according to the guy at the parts counter), and the fan blade would stop almost as soon as you let go of it. I thought I heard an unusual noise when the outside unit kicked on last night - my guess is that the bearings in the fan motor started eating themselves and sometime overnight, the fan thermal-tripped itself off, which would have been shortly followed by the compressor doing the same. I'm going to have to take it apart tonight and fiddle with the wire routing a bit since I'm not 100% on board with my own ziptie solution, but it works for now and it's cooling the house down. The off-the-top-of-her-head quote a company my wife's friend runs gave us was in the range of $800 to replace all those things, though for some reason they were convinced they would need to be sourced only from Lennox. The universal motor has a much longer shaft than needed (  ) but it still has plenty of room to clear within the unit. I paid just shy of $200 to pick them up at a local appliance parts shop, and if it even gets us a month or two it's money well spent. Personally I'd rather move than replace the unit, but who knows how that will work out.
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I am currently most of the way up an appalachian mountain in a condo in the woods watching Miyazaki films and curling up with the wife. Things aren't bad at all. Happy anniversary, us. I wouldn't want to be anywhere else. E: Oh and that old wheel bearing rusted the outer race onto the brake drum, so when I was knocking it out the entire bearing innards shot out the back. I ended up needing a new drum because I couldn't get the race out. But no one, not even Nissan has the proper studs in stock. So I had to hammer out the old ones and reuse them. In the process, I apparently got a lot of gunk on the tone wheel/wheel speed sensor because the abs and tc lights won't turn off. And her car cannot climb 15% grades at all, with the ac on. It's very upset about the bullshit I have put it through, changing pulley ratios is noticably rougher than before this trip. Next time, we are taking my car up here. Skyline drive, here I come. 
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Wife and I were bored and went to a couple open houses. $430k gets you meh, $725 gets you "wow!". And not a ton in between. :/
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ilkhan posted:Wife and I were bored and went to a couple open houses. $430k gets you meh, $725 gets you "wow!". And not a ton in between. :/ Sounds like where I'm at in Colorado. It's one of the reasons I'm trying to go back to Kansas City.
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Rock (related) chat: Iron Maiden are knobs for forcing the game Ion Maiden to have its title changed to Ion Fury.
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LloydDobler posted:I don't mind having to hunt for good music, makes you feel cool when you find it. The market for music is massive, a band can put out a couple fantastic albums and never make the radio, but that's what spotify and other music servers are for. Looks like down north of the Springs? fknlo posted:Sounds like where I'm at in Colorado. It's one of the reasons I'm trying to go back to Kansas City. Yeah but, KC weather sucks and the jobs don't pay as well... Beverly Cleavage posted:SC'ed FRS/BRZ sounds awesome, but wasn't it Muffinpox that bought one and eventually got rid of the SC if not the car itself? I can attest to having recently seen a Snapchat selfie of him with the car on fire behind him. It looked like a little fire, but flames nevertheless. Tremek fucked around with this message at 23:26 on Aug 17, 2019 |
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Thursday: woke up at 9pm, went to work at 10pm Friday: left work at 7:30am, hauled rear end home, took a shower, threw luggage and GF in GF's car. Picked up friend at 9:30am. Drove to Dallas. Had cheesesteaks at Fred's. Went to a funeral. At the end, his parents said everyone was invited back to their house. Parents threw a party that would have made their son proud (lots of liquor, food, and  ). I stayed sober, friend that rode with us found a ride to where he was staying (south of downtown Dallas, while we were staying in Plano), left pretty early, got to parents house, somehow stayed awake longer than GF. Fell asleep after 25 1/2 hours.Somehow woke up at 7am. Grabbed friend that rode up with us around 9am, hauled rear end back to Austin so he could make it to work by 1pm. Now I'm trying unsuccessfully to sleep for work tonight. I brought back a piece of furniture my mom had refinished for me (an old bedside table that was a wedding gift to her in the 70s; I've had it for ages, but it needed a lot of love). GF's shithead cats have discovered the dangly metal pulls, thus why I haven't been able to sleep.  First time at a Catholic service of any kind. They kept it surprisingly short (only about an hour), and the parents encouraged jeans and band shirts, since that's all friend ever wore. Somehow I didn't completely lose it (I don't handle funerals well), but there wasn't a dry eye in the place. Good to see all of my old friends; first time in at least 12-14 years we've all been in the same place at the same time. Definitely the last time we'll be in the same place at the same time. Had no idea that not only did a couple have kids, said kids were in loving high school. GnarlyCharlie4u posted:My new truck doesn't have a CD player and despite many years of streaming I still find it wierd not being able to grab an album off the shelf on my way out the door and listen to it front to back on my way to work. Drove stepdad's '19 F-150 today (XLT Texas Edition) and didn't even notice that. Hell of a nice truck though, and a 2.7 has no loving business moving off the line the way that thing does. They look like some seriously tiny turbos, guess that's why I was already going "holy poo poo" before I got through the intersection. If it were mine I'd wanna see what it would do just slapping some bigger turbos on.  His was showing 18.9 mpg when I got in it. 18.1 2 miles later after I flogged the hell out of it with traction control off and in sport mode.  Time will tell how it holds up; he bought the dealer demo, and it already had 2500 miles on it. When I looked under the hood, my first reaction was "where the gently caress is the engine, awwww those are adorable tiny little turbos".Applebees Appetizer posted:Music talk....Anyone else kinda psyched for the new Tool album dropping at the end of the month? Of course. And I got an email today from Amazon that I'll actually be receiving it on the 30th, instead of it being shipped on the 30th (that's kinda par for the course with Amazon tho). cakesmith handyman posted:Yeah sometimes it's that simple, ordered a brother-DCP-L3510CDW. Let's see how long the 1000 page starter toners last. FWIW my Brother mono printer came with a 750 page starter. Right at 700 it started streaking ever so slightly, but taking out the cartridge and shaking it a bit took care of that. It's at almost 900 now. everdave posted:I am 42 and I regularly go to shows seeing bands in their 20s. Good poo poo is good poo poo. Luckily or unlucky I get time to pursue these things. But I also go see old men like me (Noel Gallagher) every chance I get. 40, but the same applies to me.
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That's amazing that the original cap lasted that long. Your replacement won't. New caps seem to last about 1-4 years, but they're cheap, so keep the right size on the shelf. The contactors last longer. The fan motor can last a long time. Glad you're back up and running... plus you did it yourself, which makes it all the better.
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I saw "Hobbs & Shaw: 8 Fast 8 Furious" yesterday in IMAX... fun movie, extremely silly but a good couple hours of Alternate Superhero Universe if you're tired of Marvel, and it's better at being a Bond movie than Bond has been in 15 years. Bears zero resemblance to the first movies, and Suspension of Disbelief must elevate to near "Enlightenment" levels and maintained throughout, but everyone in it is a pretty good actor and the effects are well done.  Re: BRZ/FR-S vs C5 or C6 Corvette - You can have a WHOLE lot more fun in the FR-S without losing your license, if you're good with your hands and feet it's virtually impossible to lose control of it no matter what insanity you do because it's just perfectly balanced (and slow), you can do all sorts of dumb poo poo that would cost you bigly in a faster/heavier car. That being said I think the FR-S works best if you have rural, twisty/smooth ribbons of asphalt to enjoy it on, I think it'd be a terrible DD in town because you'll be ragging the poo poo out of it from every stoplight and still losing every 0-45 race to the next one with the mom in the minivan next you with the 5 kids along who doesn't even know that you're racing. Because it's glacially slow. I think my '92 Miata is faster in a straight line. But also 400x wobblier since it's missing a roof, the FR-S really impressed me with how rigid it is and it feels like a much higher end sports car in the handling department, it's almost like a baby E92 M3 with the way it just gives you utter confidence.
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Ether Frenzy posted:I saw "Hobbs & Shaw: 8 Fast 8 Furious" yesterday in IMAX... fun movie, extremely silly but a good couple hours of Alternate Superhero Universe if you're tired of Marvel Ether Frenzy posted:it's better at being a Bond movie than Bond has been in 15 years. Like Battleship, it's a loving awesome old-school fun action flick to sit and watch with your best mate and a bottle of Wild Turkey.
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InitialDave posted:Like Battleship, it's a loving awesome old-school fun action flick to sit and watch with your best mate and a bottle of Wild Turkey. Bonus is my best mate looks exactly like Idris Elba, down to the white hairs in the beard.. it's uncanny.
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Ether Frenzy posted:Exactly what we did yesterday! But substitute "Hornitos Tequila" for me since it comes in a handy, pocket-sized bottle...
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meatpimp posted:That's amazing that the original cap lasted that long. Your replacement won't. New caps seem to last about 1-4 years, but they're cheap, so keep the right size on the shelf. The contactors last longer. The fan motor can last a long time. The hardest part by far was getting the fan off the old motor without bending the gently caress out of it. Ended up using a three jaw puller to get it started, a hammer and a punch to keep it moving, and finished with a prybar and a 2x4. If I'm still in this house in six months, and it hasn't died, I'll stash some spares.
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